The Positioning Shift: From Expert to Choice Summary of the Independent by Design IP Expert Support Live Session (24 February 2026) Most IP experts do not have a competence problem. They have a translation problem. The session opened with a pattern yo ...

In practice, an IP assignment is rarely “just paperwork”. It is a commercial event that changes who can exploit a technology, who can enforce it, who can grant licences, who can pledge it as collateral, and who bears the risks if something goes wrong ...

Corporate IP management is currently navigating a period of accelerated transformation. Technological advances, organizational pressure, and shifting business expectations are redefining what IP functions are expected to deliver — and how they create ...

Most IP experts face the same tension once they take digital visibility seriously. Your strongest proof of competence lives behind confidentiality. The work that builds trust in real life is often based on invention disclosures, filing intentions, lic ...

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In many conversations and sparring with IP experts, a similar hesitation surfaces. “I could have said more in that meeting.” “I saw the broader risk, but it wasn’t strictly my mandate.” “I didn’t want to overstep.” The concern is understandable. IP pr ...

This Fireside Chat as a part of the 2026 IP Strategy Bootcamp which is organized by EPO-I3PM-CEIPI was designed to create productive tension, not polite overlap. The central idea was a “triangle” of three moments in IP work: deciding whether an invent ...

Many IP experts treat LinkedIn as a place to “post something occasionally.” That usually creates visibility, but not a predictable pipeline. The more reliable approach is to see LinkedIn as the front end of a client journey, and your CRM as the memory ...

Most business development advice still sounds like a campaign. Publish more. Post more. Attend more events. Send more outreach. That logic can work in consumer markets. In IP, it often misses the point. In IP practice, mandates are rarely triggered by ...

Making IP services understandable, comparable, and trusted If you ask ten innovation teams what they “need from IP,” you will often hear the same list: a patent filing, a trademark check, maybe an FTO, sometimes “support with licensing.” What you rare ...